The shock and awe of "Ancient Pain", a mercurial shape shifting piece of shoegaze by Philadelphia self described ethereal glam-core outfit Halloween, will burn emotional smoke in your eyes, making them water and blink. Some shoegaze you can pick out the lyrics but I had trouble doing so here but the precise words are beside the point here. The atmospheres tell the story by the way you feel experiencing the sounds and experience them you will. Listening with closed cup headphones is advised.
"Ancient Pain" definitely has a narrative arc and it begins relatively mellow with the sounds feeling very 80's indie rock soft pop-esque. The fact that the vocals are so pulled back makes the normalcy feel off, feel sideways so when the song erupts in such heavy grungy ways, the counter position is wonderful. When dreamy, hazy shoegaze comes to play many might reference My Bloody Valentine but I won't here. I feel a collision of artists like Tropical Fuck Storm and Cocteau Twins.
The outro might give you chills, the emotional discordance feels creepy like a sound bite from Eraserhead or Skinamarink and it might just shift all that came before.
Dig this--
-Robb Donker Curtius
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THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3bB2X23ekLaJIEUbS1ZQ0S
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb3s3XRkl2ijrUm0FQBQgeA
https://halloweenhq.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled
https://www.instagram.com/halloween.hq/
Halloween is an Ethereal Glam-Core project From Philadelphia, PA, The bands first self titled EP has a 90s flair with familiar noise, but floats off to a mix of odd external influences, deeply embedded within the group.
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